Apparatus for dressing a slaughtered bird
AssigneeMachinefabriek Meyn B.V.
InventorAlbert Kolkman
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Abstract
Apparatus for dressing a slaughtered bird, with cutting means for making cuts in the chest skin of the bird next to the thighs and with locating means for locating in these cuts the ends of the legs of the bird as defined by the hock joints. Preferably the locating means exist of means which are movable rectilinearly for bending the knees and which are rotatable for positioning the legs into the cuts. Further these means may carry the cutting means.
Claims10
An apparatus for dressing a slaughtered bird, said apparatus comprising an actuable cutting device configured for making cuts in the chest skin of a slaughtered bird, and an actuable locating device in operable configuration with said cutting device, said locating device configured to engage the leg of the slaughtered bird and to move the hock joint of the leg into the cut made by said cutting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.